For once, Edwin Vassallo is right
Timesofmalta.com reports just now:
Nationalist MP Edwin Vassallo in an impassioned speech in Parliament today said the Opposition censure motion against Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici was immoral and a case of moral political violence.
The Opposition was out to destroy the man and his family just to embarrass the government, he said.
However he wanted to urge the minister and his wife – who is attending all the parliamentary sittings – to hold firm to their faith and their values – sound in the knowledge that they had always acted correctly.
For once, Edwin Vassallo is right and what’s more, he’s zeroed in on the root of the matter. This is typical Labour Party Chinese Cultural Revolution behaviour.
It reflects really badly on us that we countenance it, when we should decry it for what it is.
What you have here is the ganging up of the Labour Party, in its time-honoured fashion, against a single individual for purposes and ultimate ends that have nothing to do with him.
The individual, sacrificed to the Labour machine.
It is horrendous. This is not about anything Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici did, didn’t do, said, or didn’t say. This is about him being a convenient means to Labour’s end of bringing down the government because it is so gagging and desperate that it can’t wait another few months to get into power and implement the policies it doesn’t have.
One of the main reasons I have despised the Labour Party all my life is its propensity and willingness to grind up individuals for the greater good of its narrow political interests.
This is yet another example.
I would rather vote for Botox Jeff again than for the children of Mao Tse Tung.
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….and yet I remember post after post after post in this very blog saying that politicians should be used to taking the heat because this is public life after all and this is done in all democratic countries. And now, that the boot is directed towards a minister, it becomes an “immoral case of political violence”. All because the Opposition is debating a minister’s performance in Parliament.
[Daphne – Taking the flak for what you did is taking the flak for what you did. This is a mass, organised attempt at using an individual to bring down the government. It is quite clear that the individual could have been anyone. That it is Carm Mifsud Bonnici is incidental, though not for him. Had Franco Debono decided to pick on, say, Dolores Cristina, then Labour would have gone for Dolores Cristina. Very moral indeed.]
That pr*ck Franco Debono has a lot to answer for, preaching about principles and demonstrating he has none.
Dr. Muscat’s Labour Party is one of extremists, with a strong sense of extreme right.
That party has no sense of morality, and the young ones they put in front, including the rising stars, are worse than the ones behind them.
They cannot value democracy, because they have no idea of what it cost to install democratic governments and to implement human rights in Europe and in Malta.
They are as dangerous as Europe’s worse dictators of the last century. Sheep in wolves clothing, the lot of them.
And then they have the cheek to claim that they are on the right side of history. The only right they are on is the extreme right.
I speak from recent personal and family experience.
The end justifies the means, as far as Joseph’s Labour is concerned.
Carm Mifsud Bonnici can thank that bright spark Franco Debono for painting the target on his back.
Thank God I have never had the opportunity to vote for the man. I’d be kicking myself right now.
My mother, now in her 60s, has voted Labour all her life, which is why, as I have previously stated here, I have always voted Nationalist, but still say I’m a Socialist.
The next election will the first time my mother is voting PN. What swayed her?
“That smirking idiot with his promises of jobs to 16 year olds – he wants further division of the classes, not social mobility. You and your brother did well for yourselves, Marie, and I hope my grandchildren can do even better.”
Now this is a very interesting comment. I’ve heard some people, who are quite advanced in their years, who have voted Labour all their lives and yet are having second thoughts for this election. They mentioned different things which can be grouped into three categories, as it were.
1. Joseph is not a man of principle. He stands for nothing. He uses gays and minorities to achieve power;
2. Joseph is too ambitious – which is interesting. Ambition is a virtue, and yet, it may blind people, which is why, I guess, experienced people regard a certain sort of ambition with suspicion.
3. Young people must fend for themselves – the role of the government should be to create the right conditions for social mobility.
There aren’t thousands, mind you, but small pockets of society whose children probably have voted PN all their lives, or most of their adult life, anyway.
My secondary school was Maria Regina Junior Lyceum. My primary was Immaculate Conception (Tarxien). Most of my peers were from Labour families, and back in the 80s I was already vociferous against anything Labour.
Now I come across my old classmates and notice one particularly interesting thing. Those who, as children, were analytical and mature and, indisputably, intelligent, are clearly pro-Nationalist, have good jobs or are self-employed and are generally achievers in many spheres.
Those who I used to consider rather dull are nowadays fervent Labourites, who are passionately against anything Nationalist, declare themselves to be “poor” and have a huge axe to grind.
I conclude that when people are taught or empower themselves to think with their own minds, they start realising that even though the PN is far from perfect, it stands for all the values we want to pass on to our children and all that we consider to be “good” in life.
Of course, one might not agree on that or this particular policy but the PN’s outlook on life and life in Malta is something which has transformed Malta from a crumbling, desolated rock to a thriving young European states full of dreams for the future.
Funny thing is, the older I grow, the more pro-Nationalist I become, most probably because I realise that theirs is the only real policy with a vision for a bright future.
A contribution to the debate, from the ‘prattikament’ Ministru tas-Sawt:
‘He said he had asked the minister to help in a case where a prison inmate had a baby in prison, but no one knew what had become of the baby (Mr Parnis later said it was a fetus)’
(copied and pasted, hence ‘fetus’)
Labour’s tactics cannot be ignored for what they are; panic.
If Joseph can’t wait long enough to undergo an electoral campaign, is it because it’s implied it’s his only chance?
He wouldn’t allow this if he were reassured that it’s policy that counts, that the leader needs his men working to the same goal, that victory is a question of merit against all odds.
I would be extremely embarrassed being seen as the leader whose agenda has been shoved to the side in this manner. More so when it starts to resemble a late night repeat. How malleable is he?
Does he realise he’s been cornered?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120525/local/debono-sees-edwin-vassallo-s-attack-as-also-directed-at-him.421279
Struck a nerve did it, dear Franco?
And Franco has already phoned up mummy…
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120525/local/debono-sees-edwin-vassallo-s-attack-as-also-directed-at-him.421279
Franco Debono’s reply :
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120525/local/debono-sees-edwin-vassallo-s-attack-as-also-directed-at-him.421279
typical
Typical Labour hounding of people.
The really pathetic bit is Franco Debono repeatedly raising points of order to tell all and sundry about his own motion. He’s mightily pissed off because the opposition is stealing his thunder.
“Typical Labour hounding of people.”
Soon Franco Debono will have to choose which side of history he is on.
He will have the opportunity to prove if he is a Nazzjonalist x 10 as he preaches, or if he is just like those on the other side.
………and what about our friend the Right Honourable Franco Debono who stirred up this hornets’ nest for reasons best known to him and to anyone able to add two and two and make it equal four and not thirty nine? This is ALL his doing.
What the Opposition are doing wrong is trying to take advantage of the rantings and ravings of a rabid opportunist who has all but destroyed the party the ideologies of which he claims to believe in so fervently.
Debono’s blind ambition has destroyed democracy in Malta and turned Parliamant into a farce.
It is only because Debono wanted Carm Mifsud Bonnici’s job so badly that all this happened.
HOWEVER ‘He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind’ or so the children of Mao Tse Tung believe!
I have my doubts if Debono wants Carm Mifsud Bonnici’s job. He seems to want to hand it over directly to Jose Herrera, Michael Falzon, or Gadget Farrugia.
‘…..so gagging and desperate that it can’t wait another few months to get into power….’
This is a very important detail, Daphne, because if only they’d just sat tight and bided their time, maybe even worked on a couple of half-policies in the mean time, then this time next year they would surely have been elected in.
As it stands, incredible episodes like this one about Carm Mifsud Bonnici, and the other totally whacky one aboutRichard Cachia Caruana, must surely be losing them potential votes in the hundreds.
Any disgruntled PN supporters, or those all-important floaters who at least have half a brain must surely see these for what they are – one pathetic and sickening farce after another.
When Joseph compromised to such an extent that even Maltatoday can hold him to ransom, there’s not a lot he can do.
His nightmare scenario may have just started, pushed to lobby for interests which have nothing to do with the traditional Labour vote.
Someone said her Labour voting mother won’t give him the vote; I can confirm the increasing number of traditional laburisti who are becoming impatient with his posturing.
They won’t accept a party led by one who tries to silence their delegati or refuse to meet his own MP’s.
People like Marlene Mizzi and Manuel Mallia are considered the cause not a consequence, the latter’s faux GRTU raising a lot of eyebrows.
Adrian Vassallo isn’t someone these two can replace, he preempted it with his letter. In his haste to please, Joseph’s distractions have eroded the party’s fabric.
Vassallo may be right, but we’re not going to see the end of this charade before the day of the election.
The opposition may be opportunist and immoral to the extreme, but it all boils down to that FB fellow. Even if this motion is defeated, there’s no way he’s ever going to keep quiet about how he can do better than everyone else.
If I were the PM, I’d declare my full faith in Mifsud Bonnici, and convert the motion into a vote of no confidence in the whole of government; voting for the motion for FB would mean that he has more faith in Joseph Muscat fixing the things that he’s be harping about. And there’s the end to that.
I’m sure the PM has considered this scenario, but has decided that it’s more important for him to complete as much of his 5-year plan as possible, despite these constant battles to take this legislature to its full term.
Franco says he loves the party, but his so-called love seems like the love of the husband who constantly verbally abuses his wife.
When one criticises someone or an organisation which he supposedly loves, one does it lovingly not disparingingly like Franco is doing to his beloved party.
If your wife is obese you don’t call her names in a social meeting, like “Here comes my Big Bertha! I feel embarrassed when she is near me; just look at her she eats everything which comes her way”.
In such situations one would either not comment or if someone passes some remark about how fat she is, one would play it down by stating something like “Yes she’s a bit chubby” and that he is part of the problem because he brings home cakes every evening and should encourage her to eat healthier foods.
If Franco’s ‘wife’ was fat he would verbally abuse her in public with words like “You PIG”; he would say that he calls her PIG because she IS obviously obese.
This bloody LLD thesis of Franco Debono should have been accepted and he should have been promoted cum laude.
After all, that imbecile Gadget made the grade.
Now the whole country is held to ransom because of a thesis almost thrown out.
If you know the right people, or if you scare the right people, yes, very easy.
It seems that it is easy to obtain an LL.D. from our university. The Labour Party is full of them.